Hey Pandas, Name A Recent Scientific Advancement That Has Got You Excited

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Mushrooms. Mushrooms are being developed that eat oil and plastics. Also mushrooms being developed as organic building materials. Mushrooms being developed as a cheaper, less toxic, cruelty free alternative to leather.

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Nathaniel (He/Him) Cis Het.

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Hashim Siraj 8 months ago

This is incredibly underrated. The advancement in cultivation of mushrooms is fascinating and something to look into. There have been coffins and furniture made with fungi which speeds up the decomposition process and as they are at the end of a linear food chain they create minerals and materials for plants to sustain themselves there.

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That we might be closer to finding Planet X. In my country there’s a space mission going on called Gaganyan where we will send astronauts to space and I’m excited for that.

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Stardust she/her

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UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 9 months ago

Planet X is often conflated with Planet 9. Planet X (X for “unknown”, not “10”) was the original designation given to what was presumed to be an undiscovered giant planet causing orbital irregularities for Neptune and Uranus. When Pluto was discovered it was declared the ninth planet. In 1978 it was determined that Pluto was not massive enough to account for that, and the search for Planet X (now meaning both “unknown” and “10”) was back on. Planet X was hypothesized to be a gas giant, but as of 2014 any Jupiter-sized planet is ruled out up to 26,000AU from the Sun. As Pluto is no longer considered a planet (argue with the IAU if you want), the proposed massive planet is now called Planet 9, and is hypothesized to be a super Earth, 2 to 15 times Earth’s mass, between 200AU and 1500AU away.

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The James Webb Telescope replacing Hubble. What a time to be alive and see all the wonders of space in such detail.

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StrangeOne

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I’m really excited about the advancements made to bring back extinct animals. I just think it’s really cool that we’re able to do that, and I always am so sad when I hear stories like the Tasmanian Tiger where we wipe out predators that are important to the ecosystem and it causes an imbalance. But we might be able to fix some of those stories, thanks to science! However, I think it’s important to not go too far with this, cuz animals go extinct naturally for a reason; that’s just how the world works. Like I have mixed opinions on bringing back the wooly mammoth. But I feel like in cases where humans are the direct cause of a species’ extinction, we kind of have a responsibility to fix that.
I’m also excited about CRISPR and the possibilities to fix genetic diseases with it. We could save/improve so many lives!

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